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  1. Shadrach

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    The cheeky bird has landed on my hat before.:lol: It's young and has been helping itself to the chickens food for a while now. The other jackdaws will come within a couple of metres but won't risk what this young bird will. It will be okay, I don't eat jackdaws.:p
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I don't think it was because of a fox. I haven't seen the vixen for months and I haven't seen the dog foxes that come courting for a while either. Possibly a dog loose in the field. I have a feeling that the problem was human. I can't explain in any rational manner why I think this, it's just...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Two and a half hours today. 18C and mainly dry. Something was bothering these two this afternoon. While delighted to be let on to the field they stayed close to me, sometimes under my chair for at least an hour. I couldn't see anything but that doesn't say much.
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    We had donkeys. They can carry the firewood down the mountain the smallholding owner said. :rolleyes: For the amount of money spent on a stable, the price of the donkeys, the feed, the vets bills they could have got a second hand Bobcat which wouldn't have tried to kick you and mostly, did as...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    Yup to both. A recent conversation in the hot spell. A. I can hear that spade hitting the rocks half down the road." Me. "yup, lucky it's down a hole or it could start a fire." A, "I thought you would have finished that by now." Me,"I'm 70. It's 28C in the shade and has been close to that for...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    They're not sexist when it comes to imprinting. Males and females all get registered.:)
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    Fugly Farm

    :hugs
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    It looks like he's imprinting the chick.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Three hours today. Warmish with on and off rain this afternoon. It's one day at a tie while I look for some chickens. A trio I was quite hopeful about didn't materialize. The rescue centers are difficult to deal with. It's all might be on such and such a date and we'll let you know. They're a...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    20/07. Three hours mainly dry with temperatures a comfortable 20C until evening.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    19/07.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I found this to be a problem with some if not most of the Ex Battery hens. Fortunately they had others hens and Henry to show them. It was the same with dust bathing.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    There are many ways to make a complete feed and even more ways to ensure a chicken gets to eat a complete feed. To be clear, what makes a feed complete, in the eyes of the commercial manufacturers is a particular set of amino acids. The ratio of these amino acids varies from feed to feed. The...
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    fuzzi's Chicken Journal

    I've known a few crowing hens so I don't decide until they lay an egg. I've not had a male lay an egg yet.:p
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    19/07. Three hours. Warm with some sunshine. 21C to 18C by the time I headed home. They're getting used to each other. Pretty much always together these days. Either Sylph knows her name of has got the tone of voice, mostly for food, right now. Mow came into roost from the back of the run while...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    18/07. Three hours.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    They are/were both native soil. I can't have explained myself well. In March in this one area I planted a sapling. The soil was moist and soft down to the stones and was an easy dig. In July, after below average rainfall for the past three months the soil had turned to dust; not a solid spade...
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    When do hens most often go broody?

    When you've casually watched where a hen is laying but not quite got a fixed location and that night it's pouring with rain and they don't return to the coop and you can't find them.:rant
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Time. The sapling was planted in March. The graves dug in July.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    It's a massive task to calculate the available nutrition for a species from a square metre of ground. For a start it changes with the weather and the seasons and new seeds and bugs arrive from lots of sources. Then of course the chickens preference changes as other options become available so...
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